Pat Oliphant for September 13, 2000

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The W campaign office of spin Not many people today remember the career of an almost-forgotten major league player from the early 1920s named Clyde Asthold. But Mr. Bush, being a great baseball fan, was, of course, aware of him... And it was Clyde to whom Mr. Bush referred when he approached those live microphones and innocently said... Say, Dick! Doesn't that nice New York Times columnist remind you of the old major leaguer, Asthold? Why, he does - Yes! Yes! Naturally, the spiteful media had to twist it into a cheap, crude sensation! ... And that's our story and we're stickin' to it! It takes one to know one.